There have only been 1435 executions since 1976. Australia should reintroduce capital punishment into the legal system to deter people from committing crimes. By bringing back the death penalty, it will deter people from committing crimes. Capital punishment would stop people from reoffenders in Australia. It will also help clean out dangerous criminals from our jails to help overcrowding jails. This will also be a cost effective way, by saving our tax payers money.
Capital punishment will deter people from committing a crime. In 1973, Ehrlich employed a new kind of analysis which produced results showing that for every inmate who was executed, 7 lives were spared because others were deterred from committing a murder. For each execution, the crime rate dropped by over 18%. By having the death penalty in our law system, it will teach kids to stay in school, so they don't get into …show more content…
60% of those in custody in Australia have been imprisoned before. If the death penalty came back into our country, I reckon it will lower the crime rate in Australia by half. You could make a strike system, so that if you keep on going to jail, you could get put on death row. By having this system, it would make the prisoners work to get bail earlier. This system could help the government save thousands.
The death penalty could be a cost effective way of getting rid of dangerous criminals. Maintaining each death row prisoner cost the taxpayers ninety thousand more per year than a prisoner in a general population. Getting rid of people on death row will save taxpayers a lot more money. It could be a cost effective way of getting rid of dangerous criminals and to keep the less violent criminals in for longer. Getting rid of people who are on a life sentence or on death row will save taxpayers a lot of money which could be spent on other things in